Oatmeal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Combine oatmeal and cold water in a pot.
Stir until it begins to boil.
Cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.
Season with salt, sugar, and any desired spices.
For infants and very sick patients, strain and do not add salt.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Oatmeal
- Thickens the water into a porridge as its starch gelatinizes during cooking.
- Cold water
- Hydrates the oats and forms the liquid base that cooks into a soft porridge.
The step that matters
Cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.. Oats settle and stick to the bottom of a pot over a long simmer. Stirring keeps them from scorching and gives an even, smooth texture as the starch thickens.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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